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Family time. Towing our camper to wind creek state park in bama with my wife and my aunt and uncle. Making great memories. And our gasser doing it with ease with tons of room. We are so lucky. This is what life is about. Making great memories.

When I grew up the average house was around 1200 Square feet with one bathroom and 3 bedrooms. The average truck was a two doors with a radio and heater. The family cruiser was a 4 door car that was smaller than the average truck. That the MSRP was about the price of an economy car today. A family did well with one pay check. Mom stayed home and kids behaved in school. I had a bicycle, a bat and glove. In the summer I worked on a local farm and mowed our lawn. About once a month we had pizza or KFC. We all watched one tv together and didn’t worry about a risqué event. Kids didn’t have multiple week day events that the parents shuffled them to out of guilt. Because that’s what the everyone did. Followed by a drive through then home to bed. On Sunday we went to church. On Monday we pledged to our flag and said a silent prayer before class. Teachers weren’t trying to feel up students or change their sex. They taught history and respect. And our cars fit in parking lots.

Yes, its the Allison 10L1000. No, its not the EXACT same part #. Gas is 24294430, diesel is 24297785 and its about $1000 difference in price. Gas 10L1000 has a different torque converter, different clutch pack p/ns (so probably a clutch or two less per pack than the L5P). More to add, lots of the internal hard parts appear to be the same #s as well.

Put ole ton dually away for hail and tornadoes last night. Opened up this morning to finish planting and was surprised. Comparing a 90 3500 to a 23 2500. No wonder I'm feeling old getting in the new trucks.

Well, finally got around to towing with the new rig. At 1100 miles, I changed oil to Redline and a WIX filter so I could really throw some heat at the ol' L8T and 10 speed this week. First leg of towing was getting our TT inspected/registered before our 750 mile round trip to Arkansas this weekend. This was just a 40 mile trip in town today. Also got the camper washed :). I hooked up to our camper and set off. My oh my.... is this 10 speed everything I want out of the truck. Seemless upshifts and downshifts with outstandingly stable downshifts coming to a stop. Getting up to speed is infinitely easier on hills, and making passes on the interstate was a breeze. Transmission stayed at 178 degrees or so while driving in 92 degree blazing heat up and down hills and city driving. I was idling for 30 minutes at the truck wash where the transmission temp spiked to 185 degrees - but then quickly came down once I had some air flowing through the front. My take on the new allison versus the 6L90 since I've owned both and towed extensively with my 2021 gasser... the 10 speed is outstanding and a game changer for folks like me wanting to tow 10-13k lbs on hilly terrain. If I had a 6 speed gasser would I quick run to the stealership to trade mine in? Absolutely not. If you ask me, the star of the show is the L8T. This engine is impressive and stout. The 10 speed just puts the L8T in its powerband quicker for certain scenarios towing and we still don't have long-term data backing the reliability of this 10 speed.

Well update time. 166,000 miles on this unit. Replaced first set of tires at 125,000 miles. Wipers about 3times? One set of plugs and wires. STILL on OEM brakes with over half left up front. Power flushed twice. Original battery. Keep up on the body and paint best I can. Interior, under hood, underbody...Mint! Still fanatical about lubrication, alignment and tire care and cooling. Going in soon for the air bag recall. Tune ups and fluid changes. Wash and wax. Drive and yea, still baby it. Most recent photo a few weeks ago. Caught a rock in the top passenger headlamp that cracked the lens. Replacement on its way. Started using a tiny bit of oil. Not even enough to top up by 5K miles.

Alternate Method (without Scan Tool) Note: Do not operate any HVAC controls while the HVAC control module is calibrating as this may interrupt the process. If interrupted, improper HVAC performance will result. Ignition OFF/ Vehicle OFF. Remove the HVAC control module fuse for a minimum of 10 s. Install the HVAC control module fuse. Start the vehicle. Wait 40 s for the HVAC control module to self-calibrate. The fuse you need to pull is FUSE F46. Its in the instrument panel fuse block on the passenger side.

OK Pryme, since this is my thread I can do what I want, and you took us back, I'll go back about as far as I can go with photo evidence. Here's a picture of me and my first driving experience - not a truck, a Rambler wagon (fairly certain) You can see I have my racing suit on while my aunt is helping get my belts tight

All Greek to me. I just change it more often.

The gain does matter when you squeeze the manual controller. That's how you set the gain to the correct value. You drive at 25 mph on level pavement and squeeze the manual controller. The gain should be set to a level where the trailer brakes are just shy of locking up. The amount of gain needed will vary depending on how much weight is loaded in the trailer. If your gain is not at 10.0 then set it higher and try again. If you get to 10.0 and the wheels still do not lock up, then the brakes may need adjusted.

Recently got my truck finished with the setup I've been putting off since I got the truck a year ago. Hardest part of the whole ordeal was finding someone to disassemble the struts and reassemble them with the new strut and spring. Ended up using a Jack Tech SK-3000 Strut Spring Compressor my cousin had collecting dust because not a single shop around me would touch them, Don't blame them. To run this suspension I also installed the Dirt King Tubular Upper Control Arms which requires you to cut off the uca bump stop. No issues so far with over extending but I think I'm going to look into installing some limit straps. The tires are a 10 wide made by kenda and they rub a lot backing but do great everywhere else plus I have not done any trimming what so ever. I have a YouTube I'm using for this build as well. https://www.youtube.com/@dhobbsv8/videos Parts List - - SDHQ Skid Plate - Dirt King Tubular UCA - Eibach Pro-Truck Lift System Stage 1 - Baja Designs Fog light kit (NON DOT) - MST Time Attack (Truck) 18x7.5 -12 offset - Kenda Klever 35/10.50

Worked for a construction company that only did insurance work. TSP was used to wash everything after a fire. I keep some in stock. Money/revenue is the root of all businesses. Went on a job interview for an appliance repair tech. After talking about my abilities to repair appliances the owner said "Hiring people to do repairs is easy, techs that can sell extras is hard." I left.

I use fluid film on mine. The application gun is less than $50 and I can do a full size truck with a gallon and a half ($40 per gal) The easiest way to coat the wheel arches on the bed is by removing the tail lights and spraying forward on to the area. They also have several plugs on the inner bed side that can be removed to the inside surface of the outer panel and really soak the wheel arch. My gun has a straight hose and a 360 spray hose along with the regular nozzle. I have found that enough plugs are in the body to do all the critical areas like this plus the rockers. The fluid film has to be touched up every year or 2 in the high spray areas such as around wheels etc. I do like the fact that it migrates and doesnt harden although its best to park it on a area of the driveway that youre not concerned about making a mess on for a week or 2 after application.

Here is my 86 short bed, was an Alabama truck, rust free all original sheet metal! I did replace the right side cab corner, it had a rust hole about 1/4" in diameter, that was it! Stripped to bare metal and re shot in Light Blue Metallic, with pearl in the clear.

When I grew up our house was 20 by 40 as they use to call it...3 bedrooms one bath...I had a sister come into play when I was seven....I got used to pissing outside....lol...

I have the exact same thought. I saw a few trucks when I was in the market with 80+ miles. No thanks. Mine had 7mi and I wish it was less but it was acceptable. The reason I stopped buying used is because most people are not like the automotive lovers forum guys are. They are slobs who don’t even do standard maintenance until they are about to unload their problems onto unsuspecting customers. Whenever you see an advertisement that says fresh oil change and ice cold air; RUN.

My 2024 HC showed upon at the dealer Saturday. Ordered it middle of January. Should be picking it up some time this week.

Wait until someone is finally brave enough to do an all things considered gas electric comparison. I’ve read articles that claim up to mid size Hybrids beat electric in pollution. Then add the stress of range. Instead of trying to force a new idea down our throat. Let good old entrepreneurs take the risk of perfecting and reap the rewards. The one automaker who has a reputation of near perfection is slow walking electric. Perfecting hybrids. I tend to listen to winners. Not wishful thinking.

Did an oil change and rotated tires. Glad I switched to the F107N after the 1st oil change, keeps everything clean. Took a bit for relearn after the tire rotation.. passenger rear was finicky on how I had to hold the TPMS relearn tool(EL-50448).

I got some more. What about all these people who have a low beam burned out? Instead of fixing it, they just run their brights 24/7 to avoid getting pulled over. Widespread problem driving in the city. And they never get pulled over for blinding everyone with their high beams, of course. And on the topic of lights…remember when you could just simply replace a burned out bulb? Not the case on most new cars now. A 10 cent bulb gave way to $1200 headlight assemblies. I like my fancy headlights but c’mon. At least give us a little serviceability. Somehow.

40% of americans are going backwards. Was it there fault?? Maybe, but for the other 60% out there, can we help them. yes we can..please help others directly......I hate the whole giving to those charities to where only 4% goes to the actual cause...help those that need it need if you can...the older I get the more charitable I get for direct causes...Those charities online and what Delta wants me to give to them....00000000 screw you that live on charity funds, helps those who are in need directly....

Chrome rules.... What are you going to wrap all the Chrome with black? Looks cheap.

Brief points so far on the 2024 HD - *-Big fuel tank, long range, $40 get ya almost a 1/4 tank *-6.0-6.6 gasser - I can't sense any noticeable difference in power but it's only clocked 438 miles. For me, the 6.0 was amazing-seems to enjoy fuel *-10spd trans - WOW! I'm super pleased now that GM had their thumb up their ass for 2 model years before they got around to making my 2024' - My highlight so far worth every day of waiting on top of everything else in the makeover. *-The Super Dooper all digital hyped to hell and back glass dash - After going through it, getting all set up I'm underwhelmed. But most of the videos I watched were by GM truck dealership folks/salesmen. It's cool, but in a basket, it's still kind of basic. Like a new computer - the same sht just rearranged. Like moving the furniture in the living room. But I keep imaging the potential that's untapped with the technology and I'm not even sure what it is or could be, but that's not my job. *- Super solid, quiet, responsive, agile for such a long wheelbase or at least what I'm used to with the reg cab/LB, I'm not outstanding just yet on the intuitive feel of where the rears are tracking, getting better. I feel like I got all the upgrades on my wants list over the last HD and even more but in relation to dollars, for a 30% increase in price you should. PS: My dealer has my truck up now with 30 pics I think. She looks amazing! like new! and the craziest part? Asking more than what I paid for it in 2016 - That's it for now

The S10 morphed into the Colorado. They would need to bring back the Luv to compete with the maverick. I do like not needing ramps to change the oil. I can check it without a stool but barely. I need one to add oil comfortably though. And if I want to was the roof. I can barely wash mid windshield on my tippy toes haha

Summer is finally here!

Towed just under 500 miles up here to Arkansas. Other than being completely exhausted from the drive (2 year old girl screaming for 5 hours at my wife, son, and I) truck did amazing. Mileage is exactly the same as my 6 speed 2021 gasser. I had a ridiculous headwind for 200 miles and only averaged 6.8mpgs . Rest of the drive I averaged just under 10mpg. Where this transmission really shines is right where we all expected it to - maintaining speed and not screaming in 3rd or 4th gear like the 6L90. It was a lot of fun going up and down the Ozark mountains with the truck making slight shifts and I believe 7th gear was the gear I stayed in maintaining 65mph. My wife was most impressed with how quiet the truck was. Besides the screaming 2 year old

I took some pictures of my truck few days ago, thought I'd share. Tires are on 22inch rims and they're around 35.8inchs when measured using a measuring tape. Borla S-type exhaust with dual exhaust tips on each side.

Very true. A little off topic, I know on my motorcycle, the intake and exhaust valves need to be checked every 30-40k miles and if taking it to an average dealer, they will probably just make sure the valves are "in spec" (+/- .001) per manufacturers numbers. That is considered "acceptable". But they really need to be set at "center spec" to get the best performance. Center spec is more time consuming and costly through a dealer but much better in the end. But finding a shop that will do that isn't easy. I do my own now...

Wish it was a pic of a Camaro.

First pic of mine (on the bottom facing rear) supposed to pick it up on Monday.

@Grumpy Bear @swathdiver UPDATE: thank y’all so much for all the help with everything. Over the past month I’ve done the following to my truck: -replaced cooling thermostat with the Mishimoto 180 design -installed new transmission cooling lines which now comes with a 70° C (158° F) transmission thermostat -had the radiator cooling fans checked…they work perfectly. Drove on a 4 hour and 5 hour drive with trans temps hovering around 172-175 during cruise, but would rise to mid 180s when sitting in traffic. -transmission shop that did the rebuild performed a hot flush and changed out the fluid as well. No metal was found during the flush. So….I think everything has been done that y’all recommended. The 180 thermostat seems to have been a big help, but I’ll keep monitoring things. Thank you again!!!

This just happened...... Finally

I just picked up my truck from dealer and very glad I spent the money to get a GM Protection Plan. It has more than paid for itself now. I found out when getting my oil changed that during the inspection, they discovered the transmission cooling lines were leaking as well as a leak from the upper oil pan. The repair bill for this came out to just over $2900 including 2 days of car rental and was covered by the plan. All except for the oil filter??? I was to pay about $8 for a new oil filter. I slightly complained but was respectful because the oil filter was practically new from the recent oil change. I said that if I had known beforehand, I would have just waited on repair to be done instead of having the oil changed. On top of this, all that new oil had to be wasted and changed out as well. But surprisingly the 8qts of new oil was covered under the plan. The service guy said that a new oil filter was just part of the repair but not covered under the plan. I groaned that had I been notified of the oil pan leak beforehand, I would have just held off on oil change and would have gladly paid for the oil filter now. He begrudgingly agreed and finally said don't worry, it would be taken care of and it was. This is the third time I have been able to take care of something with the plan. I've actually been pretty lucky with this truck so far. I haven't had anything too major but the repairs I've needed have been a bit pricey. Besides this repair, I had a fuel injector that was stuck open and needed to be replaced last year and a crack in front differential housing 2 years ago that was also covered. I never found out why that crack happened and was a bit surprised that the plan covered it. When I got the truck new in 2016, it already had almost 600 miles on it. I got in touch with GM and after haggling a bit, I got them to extend the original bumper to bumper from the 3 year 36k miles to 4 years 60k miles. That ran out Mar of 2020. Prior to it running out, I was still able to buy a 5 year 60k additional Protection Plan. I went with the Platinum and $0 deductible. So I am covered for another 35k (125,000) miles and until Mar of 2025. This last repair has by itself covered that cost. After seeing post after post about lifter failures, torque converter failures, condenser failures, etc, I am praying that if this is going to occur, it needs to happen in the next 2 years before it costs me money. I'm at 7 years of ownership now and plan on keeping this truck for a quite a few more years.

I love when people sound off on their absolutes. I can only give my experiences. My replacements oil bath filters would last the life of my vehicles. My filter in my 92 Chevy was in the entire 12 years I had it. My wife’s Acura at 22 years old has had every fluid replaced at least once at the dealer. They pull and inspect the air filter. It’s original. I never thought about it, now I will. There’s people, I’m one. That rarely see bad roads or dirty environments. My wife’s Genesis a 2011 at 125k miles has had one air and cabin filter and no alignment. You can’t paint everyone with the same brush.

No excuse or reasoning will justify 96k.

Dealer has truck. Will update this thread when i hear back.

2019-2021 they have a newer torque converter with a CPA or Cetrifugal Pendulum Absorber on the front end of it to help ease AFM V8 to V4 to V8 transitions. That was pretty much the only change. They still use a thermostat on them (all 3 transmissions do).

Just so it doesn't appear that I'm picking on Mary exclusively, Mercedes is advertising that they'll be all electric by 2030, sooner than GM I believe. Toyota is the only manufacturer that I've heard that is taking a more cautious approach to going all in on EV's and keeping their options open. I'm not a Toyo fan but I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot more of them on the road in the 2030's if the other manufacturer's don't carefully mothball their ICE engine plants so they can nimbly reverse course on what I believe is a very foolish business plan.